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Title: A cyclopedia of missions : containing a comprehensive view of missionary operations throughout the world : with geographical descriptions, and accounts of the social, moral, and religious condition of the people
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Newcomb, Harvey, 1803-1863
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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it has occasioned,will appear from the fact that, in ten years,from 1815 to 1825, no less than 5,997 widowswere thus immolated. For a long time theSuttee was winked at by the British govern-ment in India. Dr. Scuddersays that in 1819,when he first went to India, no order had beenissued against it. In 1828, a society wasformed at Coventry, England, called the Hu-man Sacrifice Abolition Society, the object ofwhich was to effect, by appeals to British hu-manity and justice, the abolition of widow-l)urniiig, infanticide, and other superstitiousmurders in India. In their report for 1834,they state that the Suttee was abolished in theBengal Presidency in 1829, and in the otherPresidencies the following year. In 1848,Dr. Scudder staled that the practice still pro-vailed in the native Stales of Meywar, Yolah,Marwar, Beekaneir, Kisbcngur, Ulwar. and)(oondee, a portion of the country larger thanXew-JMiglaiid. He says Suttees are rooted inthe affections of the people ; as an evidence i>f «#
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SWAK RIVER—SYRIA. 733 which he states that the Eajah of Ihallawarissued a proclamatioa denouncing any onewho should assist at a widow-burning. Hesoon after died, and the first victim after hisproclamation was his own widow. But hesays that, whenever a province is takenpossession of by the British government, theSnttee is immediately abolished; and thatgovernment is exerting its influence with thenative kings to secure its entire abolition ; inconsequence of which some of them are issu-ing their orders against it.— The Suttees Cryto Britain, by J. Beggs ; 3Iiss. Her., Sept.,1834, p. 347, and March, 1848, p. 90. SWAN RIVER : A settlement in Austra-lia, on the river of this name, occupied by theWesleyan Society. SYJDNEY : The capital of Australia. Itis situated upon a cove which opens from thespacious basin of Port Jackson. The town isbuilt upon the head of the cove, on a rivuletwhich falls into it, and in a valley between twoopposite ridges. The best houses arc of whitefree-stone, o

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